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A Newspaper For the Home Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY EYEMNG WEATHER Variable Cloudiness With Diminishing Winds Wanner Sunday Temperature at Noon 37 IP -J Nevada's Greatest Newspaper SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 7 PHONE 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1955 PHONE 3-3161 16 PAGES 10 CENTS H2 RENO Ml Hicks, Jones -)J. $. Lifts Ban Late Rush of Candidates Assures Bulky City Ballot rUnMudent Return to China 76 Technicians Freed to-Leave After Long Delays' With the addition of 13 late-filing candidates at the deadline, Reno's election campaign shapes up as a hotly contested race in all parts of the city government. The election slate now stands at 45 names.

During the final filing hours i Earthquake Toll Climbs to 327 In Philippines Thousands Homeless, Hundreds Injured, Damage Is High By HENRY HARTZENBL'SCII DANSALAN, Mindanao, Philippines, April 2. UP) The death toll in the disastrous southern Philippines earthquake mounted to 327 today with reports from outlying areas continuing to paint a grim picture of terrifying destruction. Most of the dead were counted WASHINGTON, April 2. UP) The state department announced today that 76 technically trained ji i a vninese students nave Deen gram-J ed permission to leave the United Static monm'n(T Vior nor cm ill 'fsm wP insi fi irfhfr JJ ni wwf THE VERDICT WAS GUILTY Cafe society playboy Minot F. (Mickey) Jelke stares straight ahead as he and his wife, the former Sylvia Eder, leave the courtroom after a jury found him guilty on, two counts of compulsory prostitution.

Sentencing was set for April 28, with Jelke continued on $45,000 baiL (AP wirephoto) NEW KIND OF TENSION PHILIPPINE ROAD RIPPED BV QUAKE A bus is halted by cracks in the National highway near Ozamis City on Mindanao Island after it was hit and severely damaged by one of the worst earthquakes in the history of the Philippine Islands. The estimated death toll, reached 327 persons today. (AP wirephoto) SWEEPS OVER FORMOSA Nationalist Bastion Fears U. S. Decision To Write Off Qiiemoy, Matsu; See III Effects TAIPEI, Formosa, April 2.

UP) There is a new kind of ten sion these days in Formosa. Not a war tension, a surrender tension. Formosa is tense with dread that the United States is in the process of deciding if she hasn't already decided to write off Matsu and Quemoy. What is the Evidence American representatives here are making a daily sounding new candidates appeared for every post excepting those of Second and third ward councilman and municipal judge. FILES FOR MAYOR James E.

Wood, who resigned this week from his job as Washoe county assemblyman, filed for mayor. Val Dage, veterans' or ganization official, came in to run against City Clerk Elliott Gill, who had been unopposed. Charles E. Springer filed to run for city attorney. J.

R. (Dick) Hughes, local businessman, filed for First ward council. Incumbent Thomas Harvey, radiator repairman Roy Lob-dell and Carle B. Stanley, realtor, and Angelo Urrutia, also a real estate man, filed in the Fourth ward. In the Fifth Ward race Joe Mastroianni, builder; John Mc-Auley and Richard C.

Taylor ap peared. Earl Guyton and William H. Gravelle filed for the Sixth ward council post, 'which now has nine candidates. MISSES BY 8 MINUTES Another candidate for mayor, Dan Riordan, 1765 Tolica was turned away from the city clerk's office eight minutes after the deadline. With the $50 filing fee in his hand, Riordan said he had driven all the way from Fallon, where he had been on business, to file.

Carle Stanley the last can didate to get in under the deadline wire. As filing closed, this is the list of candidates. MAYOR: Len Harris, M. Jim Jeffers, Howard Johnston, Dr. O.

C. Moulton, Dr. H. J. Valenta and James E.

Wood. CITY ATTORNEY: John W. Barrett, Samuel B. Francovich and Charles Springer. CITY CLERK: Elliott GiU and Val Dage.

MUNICIPAL JUDGE: Harry D. Anderson, Laurance Layman and F. Kirby Unsworth. FIRST WARD COUNCIL: Norman W. Rockholm, Ben Maffi, W.

B. Roberts, George Carr, Earl D. Reed and Richard Hughes. SECOND -WARD COUNCIL: Bud Baker and Russell Mills. THIRD WARD COUNCIL: Charles Cowen and Wesley Davis jr.

FOURTH WARD COUNCIL: Eugene Raiche, Harold Mathisen, Thomas Harvey, Roy Lobdell, Carle B. Stanley and Angelo Urrutia. FIFTH WARD COUNCIL: Jack Myles, E. Johnny Andriola, August LeBlanc, Joseph Mastroi anni, John McAuley and Richard C. Taylor.

SIXTH WARD COUNCIL: Kenneth Rice, W. W. Well-pott, William Foster, George Brown, William Royle, Mary Frazzini, Robert La Vare, Earl Guyton and William H. Gravelle. Attempt on Life Of Sect Head Fails saiuUxV, April z.

up a jeep raced past the home of Cao Dai General Nguyen Thanh Phuong early today and sprayed it with machine gun bullets. But the religious sect leader who recently switched allegiance to the govern ment, was reported unhurt. The shots shattered the three day calm existing in Saigon since government troops clashed with the dissident Binh Xuyen religious society. Wednesday's battle, touched off by a dispute over con trol of the police force, cost 26 lives. Doughnut Riot Given 2 Months To Quit Resort Hidden Interests In Thunderbird Leads to Ruling CARSON Marion B.

Hicks and Clifford A. Jones, former Democratic lieutenant governor, will have to dispose of their interests in the Thunderbird hotel or the license of the Las Vegas strip resort will be suspended, tfre Nevada Tax Commission ruled Friday. The two men have until June 1 to dispose of their interests. If the tax commission does not receive satisfactory proof by then that both are out, the gambling license of the Thunderbird Hotel Is to be lifted and it will remain suspended until Jones and Hicks remove themselves from the operating group. LOAN FROM SADLO Hicks ran afoul of the Nevada gaming law when he accepted a loan from George Sadlo, identi fied as a business associate of Meyer and Jake Lansky, underworld figures.

The commission believed the loan, which has been repaid, represented a hidden interest in the gambling operation. Jones was not linked directly to the loan transaction in com mission deliberations, held hind closed doors with only the press present on a "semi-off-the- record" basis. No formal reason was an nounced with the decision, but under Nevada's new gambling control act, the commission must file formal findings and conclusions which are expected to detail the commision charges against the Thunderbird operators. Hicks owns 51 per cent of the Thunderbird operating company. The hotel-casino was finished in 1947.

USE OF MONEY Jones, who owns approximately 1 per cent, was Democratic lieutenant governor for eight years. He did not seek re-election last Fall. Testimony heard during a lengthy series of hearings disclosed that George Sadlo loaned Hicks $197,000 in 1947 during ini tial stages of Thunderbird operations. Of that amount, $160,000 went into construction and $37,500 into the bankroll. Sadlo, according to evidence introduced, later assigned one half of the loan to Jake Lanskyv i his was disclosed with the pre sentation of income tax returns of both Sadlo and Lansky.

Hicks paid 12 per cent interest on the $160,000 and the returns showed an even split of Hicks interest payments which vvere made to Sadlo by check. The Thunderbird hotel presi dent testified he did not know Sadlo had allowed Lansky to participate in the loan, and a Sadlo affidavit was introduced declar ing that Hicks did not know that the loan had ben split up. Both Jones and Hicks testified that neither Sadlo nor Lansky had exercised any control over Thunderbird affairs. TALKS WITH TABET Also introduced during the lengthy hearings was testimony (Turn te page 11, col. 6) Reds Charge U.

S. Plane Intrusion TOKYO, Sunday, April 3. (JP) Peiping radio last night accused the United States of violating Red China's air boundaries with the clear intention of increasing tension in the Far East. A broadcast heard here said U. S.

planes "in four waves totalling 18 sorties yesterday (Friday) intruded into Chinese territorial air and carried out military provocations" which "clearly aim to increase tension in the Far East." Fourteen U. S. Navy planes, the Red radio said, flew over Red Chinas Hainan island. Four American planes, the broadcast continued, "escaped" from pursuing Red Chinese planes over Shuntung province. It said these planes "intruded over the countries of Yungcheng, Laiyang, and Kiaohsien in the Kiaotung peninsula" and circled an area six kilometers east of Kiaohsieft.

Tax Deadline, Not Cupid Swamps Altar LONDON, April 2. UP) They're queuing up to get married in Britain today. The tax man proved a better marksman than Cupid even if not quite as romantic. The rush to get married before the deadline to qualify for an exemption in the year's income tax is the biggest in years. Couples were being ushered in and out of registry offices in assembly-line style registrars at London's Caxton Hall said: "There is a marriage about every 10 minutes." The same, was true else-twhere the prize for marrying before Monday being an income tax exemption of 90 pounds ($252) that goes with having a wife.

Britain Certain Churchill to Quit LONDON, April 2. UP) Opinion hardened in Britain today that Winston Churchill will step down as prime minister next week perhaps Tuesday. But there is still no official word on the 80-year-old govern ment leader's plans. And none is expected untu sucn a time as Churchill formally gives up the government reins. He remained at his No.

10 Downing St. office todrr instead of going into the country as he usually does on weekends. Some j. 1 it political sootnsayers saw a sign that, too; that he wanted spend his last weekend as prime minister right in harness. The authoritative British Press Association said today "there now every reason to believe that on Tuesday Sif Winston Church ill will drive from 10 Downing btreet to Buckingham Palace where he will place his resignation as prime minister in the hands of the queen." armed with two rocks.

This was after Adams was accused of cheating, an accusation he denied. Adams had a rifle and the corporal grabbed another rifle from under a cot. Chief Judge Robert E. Quinn wrote that Adams fired twice, killing the corporal and a sergeant outside the tent. The court's unanimous opinion said the court martial and the review board failed to note that when Adams went to his own tent "he retreated as far as the law demands." "Whatever the name of his place of abode," th eopinion said, "it is his 'castle and he is there entitled to stand his ground against a trespasser to the same extent that a civilian is entitled to stand fast in his civilian home." Nevada A-Test- Injuries Told Four Men Suffer A-Burns to Eyes WASHINGTON, April 2.

UP) The defense department has con firmed that four men suffered eye burns during atomic tests in 1952 and 1953 at Yucca Flats, Nev. Injuries to two of theni are probably permanent. The Harrisburg, Sunday Patriot News reported March 20 that six men have suffered eye injuries, including one former officer blinded in one eye. The defense department said a recheck of its records showed only the four cases among about participants and observers. An official booklet the government issues this year had said "no participant or observer has ever been injured by test activity at the Nevada test site Neither the defense department nor the newspaper listed the names of the men injured.

The department's announcement said two of the men still are on active duty, one of them suffering from "minor difficulty" in reading. One of the two no longer in service apparently had no lasting ill effects, the announcement said, but the other resigned while suffering from an eye inflammation. The department did not say either why the man resigned or whether he lost the sight of the eye. First Couple Spend Weekend on Farm GETTYSBURG, April 2, UP) President and Mrs. Eisen hower today were enjoying their first full weekend at their new country home.

The first lady motored to the Eisenhower farm from Washing ton yesterday morning and the president arrived late in the af ternoon. Communist China. Orders which have barred their departure for as long as four years in some cases were rescind ed yesterday on joint decision of the state, justice and defense departments. OTHER CASES PENDING About half a dozen more cases will be decided shortly by the immigration and naturalization service. The expectation is that they, too, will be cleared to go to Red China.

The decision to release the students reportedly was taken in the hcpe that it would result in the release or lo American airmen and a U. civilian held by the Chinese Communists. State department press officer Henry Suydam said: "Our position is that we would like Americans of all categories in China to be released for whatever reason might appeal to the Red Chinese authorities." NO DEAL INVOLVED State department officials as serted no "deal" with the Red Chinese was involved. The United States-has-, been negotiating for the Telease of civilians with Red Chinese representatives, Geneva. The United Nations has been trying to obtain freedom for the U.

S. airmen who were captured in the course of the Korean war. The Chinese Communists had denounced the United States for declining to permit the Chinese students to go home, claiming they were being held as hostages for imprisoned U. S. airmen whom the Reds labeled "spies." Permission to leave the country had been withheld on grounds the group in this country included persons skilled in sciences that could be useful to any Communist war effort.

Scelba Lauds Role Of West Schools NEW YORK, April 2. UP) Western centers of learning play a vital role in combatting the spread of communism, Italian Premier Mario Scelba said today. The premier received a doctorate of laws from Fordham university. In an address he cited the task conirontmg such institutions in the battle against communism, saying: "In a world where the eventual outcome of the struggle between the two systems depends upon the strength of our principles and upon the faith we place in them, the western centers of-learning now play a part and assume an importance which cannot be overestimated." In an earlier Scelba quoted Italian Communists as saying Italians are "servants of America." He added: "Here's the answer: Everyone wants to come to the United States, nobody wants to go to Russia." Brief Is Filed In Sheppard Case CLEVELAND. April 2.

UP) Attorneys for Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, trying to upset his con viction on a second degree murder charge, told apepals court today that his wife, Marilyn, was hacked to death in a sex attack by a left handed intruder whom she probably bit on the hand. The argument is in a brief, prepared by William J. Corrigan, chief counsel for the young osteopath who was sentenced last December to life in prison for the killing of his wife.

Nautilus News Curb GROTON, April 2. UP) The navy tightened up today on news about movements of the atomic submarine Nautilus. It did so, it explained, because of the new defense department directive, requiring review and clearance three days in advance of release of information involving security or affairs of national importance. in the Lake Lanao region of northwestern Mindanao where Friday's mighty tremors caused a tidal wave which submerged an entire village on the west shore. DAMAGE IS HIGH In addition to the 327 confirmed dead, provincial officials listed 254 as injured and estimated five million dollars in crop damage.

Additional millions in damage was wrought to churches, public buildings and homes which collapsed or slid into the lake. An estimated 10,000 persons were homeless, mostly in Lanao province. Officials in the capjtal of Lanao province expressed fear the toll would climb further. President Ramon Magsaysay flew to hardest hit Ozamis in Misamis Occidental province, and Dansalan and Iligan in Lanao. SPEAKS TO VICTIMS He climbed on the rubble of the toppled old Spanish church in Ozamis and told the inhabitants: "I am really sorry this had to happen to you.

I regret being here to view this terrible- We landed at Balo airport just I south of Iligan and motored to Dansalan a distance of 12 miles. Along the way we saw fissures and landslides. Huge boulders blocked part of the highway. Makeshift tents provided temporary shelter for the homeless. Gov.

St. T. Lluch of Lanao said 300 bodies Were buried up to today. "Most casualties were due to drowning when homes built on stilts along the lake shore toppled," Lluch said. A U.

S. airforce medical team arrived today from Clark Air Force base on Luzon. Auto Union Asks Political Front CLEVELAND, April 2 un The CIO United Automobile Workers Union yesterday urged labor and farm groups to mobilize in ad vance of the 1956 political conventions, "in an all-out effort to fight for liberal principles in the platforms of the political parties." At the conclusion of the union's convention, the 3000 delegates approved a resolution calling for a national conference of labor, farm and other "liberal" forces next Spring. In one of its last acts, the convention shouted endorsement of a program calling for federal aid to school and hospital construction, a federal housing program, heav ier taxes on excess profits andsur- plus savings, appropriations for public power, increased unemployment benefits, a $1.25 minimum wage, greater social security coverage, and federal industrial health and safety codes. A foreign police resolution hailed the administration's pledge to support Formosa and the Pes-cadore islands from Red Chinese invasion.

City Employes Tutored in Charm LOS ANGELES, April 2. UP) Whether they like it or not, 16,000 municipal employes are going to charm school. City service commisisoners yes terday decided to make attend ance compulsory, hut since the charm will be dispensed during working hours the city council must approve the decision. City employes, their supervisors and general managers and mem bers of the police and fire depart ments will be the students. They will be taught public rela tions, oirice courtesy among themselves and to visiting taxpayers, how to handle difficult situations with "crackpots," and how to say no politely, yet firmly.

DUE IX FORMOSA TAIPEI, Formosa, April 2. LT) U. S. Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens is expected here tomorrow to confer with President (Chiang Kai-shek.

I Knovland Hits India U. N. Seat WASHINGTON, April 2. UP) Sen. Knowland (R-Calif today differed with a proposal by Sen Humphrey (D-Minn) that the United States support India as a replacement for Nationalist China on the United Nations security council Noting Prime Minister Nehru's assertion that India would not join in if all the rest of the world were fighting, Knowland said in an interview he doesn't believe In dia deserves the "support of people -trying to a system of collective security." U.

N. mem he said, are pledged to op pose aggression. Humphrey made his proposal in a Chapel HU1. S. C.

speech last night in which he accused the Eisenhower administration of fumbling and faltering" at a time when "the issue of peace and war is in the balance" in the Far East. Support of India, he said, would show this country's interest in Asia. He added that "the Nationalist China of today is weak and not representative of the new Asia." Humphrey's blast capped a series of attacks by Democratic senators and one Republican Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin on President Eisenhower and his pol icies in the senate yesterday. REFUGEES BETRAYED VIENNA, Austria, April 2.

UP) Four Hungarian refugees who fled across the Austrian border have been returned to Hungary after being turned in by an Austrian Communist, police reported today. Copenhagen of Formosa morale and reporting I to Washington. They report on money exchange rates, prices and other things that reflect fear or discouragement or hope. "They wouldn't be doing this if they were going to help us fight for Matsu or Quemoy" said one Nationalist officer. "They wouldn't have to worry about our morale then." SEE GLOOMY OMEN Some Chinese even profess to see in the imminent departure on home leave of Ambassador Karl Rankin a gloomy omen.

Rankin, five years on Formosa and deeply sympathetic with the Nationalist cause, is, they say, being spared the painful task of breaking the bad news. Everybody agrees that the ef fect here of another bloodless surrender like Tachens and Nan-chishan would be bad. One highly- placed American said "it might even be fatal." CHANCE OF REBELLION Some even doubt that Chiane Kai-shek's leadership could survive it Some say the army might rebel. These soldiers, who have put their personal lives in adjournment even to eschewing marriage as their part toward counter-invasion, might blow their tops if they get the notion that the purpose of all this self denial and patient preparation had disappeared. More surrenders would have a slower but possibly even worse efiect on non-Communist Southeast Asia, some Nationalist quarters argue.

These people sav that the cold war has reached a point it. Asia where a reversal in one area affects all other areas. That may be far-fetched but the same group also says that another surrender to the Commu nists, specially a non-fighting surrender, might start an irre' pressible campaign of subversion in Formosa, rejuvenate the Huks in Luzon, rekindle the terrorists ir, Malaya and get the Red autonomous Thais on the Thailand border on the move. McCormick Rites Will Be Private CHICAGO, April 2. UP) Funeral services will be held Monday for Col.

Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and for years one of the nation's outstanding newspaper executives. The services will be held at Cantigny Farm, his suburban Wheaton home where he died early yesterday from a complication of diseases. DOG EXPERT DIES LOS ANGELES, April 2. UP) George Steadman Thomas, famed judge of dog shows, died in a hospital yesterday.

He was in his 80s. COURT HOLDS GI'S TENT IS LIKE CIVILIAN'S HOME Marks Andersen Birthday COPENHAGEN, April 2: UP) More than 70 nations on both sides of the iron curtain joined Denmark today in honoring Hans Christian Anderson on the 150th anniversary of his birth. At Odense, birthplace of the beloved writer of fairy tales. King Frederik IX paid Denmark's tribute in a world-wide broadcast As he spoke flags flew all over the nation, buildings were decorated with huge portraits, street cars and taxis sported gay pennants. In Copenhagen, children watching a special Anderson program in a movie theater rioted when they were told the supply of promised doughnuts was exhausted.

They stampeded out and rushed to city hall, yelling: "Doughnuts doughnuts!" Nervous city hall officials telephoned all bakeries the neighborhood and had several wagonloads smuggled into the city hall through a rear door. When the front doors were opened the children swept in, trampling those who had fallen in the mad rush. Red Cross teams treated dozens of casualties for cuts and bruises. WASHINGTON, April 2. UP) The U.

S. Court of Military Ap peals has held that a soldier has the same right to "stand his ground" against a trespasser in his tent as a civilian has to resist an invader of his home. The court so ruled yesterday in ordering a rehearing in the case of Pfc Robert W. Adams, 26, of Drew, originally convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of two comrades. The shooting climaxed a poker game row at a Korean encampent on Dec.

8, 1953. A Review board already has reduced the conviction to voluntary manslaughter and the prison penalty from 25 to 15 years. According to testimony in the case, Adams was in his own tent when a corporal came after him. RADIOACTIVE RAIN. KYOTO, Japan, April 2.

(JP) Rain which Japanese authorities believe was contaminated by Russian atomic tests last Fall was almost dangerously radioactive, a Japanese radiologist said todav..